Dysopes limbatus Peters, 1852

Turni, Hendrik & Kock, Dieter, 2008, Type specimens of bats (Chiroptera: Mammalia) in the collections of the Museum f r Naturkunde, Berlin, Zootaxa 1869 (1), pp. 1-82 : 67

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.1869.1.1
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scientific name	Dysopes limbatus Peters, 1852
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Peters, W.C.H. (1852) Naturwissenschaftliche Reise nach Mossambique, auf Befehl seiner Majestät des Königs Friedrich Wilhelm IV. in den Jahren 1842 bis 1848 ausgeführt. Berlin, p. 56.

Valid name: Chaerephon pumilus (Cretzschmar, 1830)

Syntypes: ZMB 537 View Materials , skin, and ZMB 85520 (old number = An 16355), skull, male, adult . ZMB 538 View Materials , skin, and ZMB 85519 (old number = An 16355), skull, female, adult . ZMB 539 View Materials , skin, skull not extracted, juvenile. All specimens from Sena, Mozambique; collected by W.C.H. Peters, between 1843 and 1847 .

Comment: A fourth specimen of limbatus, ZMB 2946 , is marked in the general catalogue with a type asterisk, however, since its origin being Zanzibar (purchased from Wessel) it cannot be a syntype. The BMNH holds one further syntype (1907.1.1.704). The original name is D. limbatus (Peters, 1852: 56) , not limbata as mentioned in Simmons (2005).